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FlowTrade is an open-source crypto exchange: spot and perpetual futures with professional charting, a full order book, and an Trade Hub where you can build, backtest and run rule-based strategies on your own capital.
Yes. Deposit Bitcoin via the wallet page and trade spot or perpetual futures with real capital. Withdrawals are processed on-chain to the address of your choice.
Active traders, quant-minded developers building automated strategies, and institutions that want an auditable, open-source execution stack without opaque black boxes.
No. FlowTrade is an open-source trading platform — the full code is public and auditable — not a regulated broker, exchange or investment adviser. It is built for traders and developers who want an auditable stack. Always do your own research before committing capital.
Yes. Browsing markets and reading docs is open, but placing orders, depositing funds or running a strategy requires a verified account.
Most accounts are verified within a few hours. During peak periods or if manual review is needed, verification can take up to 2 days. You will receive an email and an in-app notification as soon as the review is complete.
Open the wallet page and choose Bitcoin as the deposit method. Bitcoin deposits are usually instant; in rare cases they may take a few hours. Other crypto deposits are typically credited within 24 hours.
From the wallet page, choose Bitcoin or another supported crypto, enter your address and the amount. Bitcoin withdrawals are instant; other crypto withdrawals typically arrive within a few hours, up to 24 hours. Card payouts take 2–3 business days.
Bank withdrawals within the EU and Switzerland settle in 1–2 banking days. Hong Kong withdrawals usually settle within one banking day. US transfers arrive within 1–2 banking days. Outside these regions, transfers can take longer than 2 banking days.
Yes. Withdraw any remaining balance, then contact our support team via the /contact page and we'll close and delete the account.
Navigator (free), Operator (€149 one-time), Strategist (€549 one-time) and Apex Circle (€2,499 lifetime). Higher tiers unlock more active strategies, deeper backtest history, priority API rate limits, direct support and exclusive events.
Yes. The Navigator plan includes charting, the futures terminal, and a limited number of active strategies and backtest runs. No credit card is required to sign up.
Upgrade or downgrade from the billing page at any time. Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period; you keep access until then.
Yes. Perpetual futures carry a 0.02% maker / 0.05% taker fee regardless of plan. These are trading fees, not subscription fees, and are deducted from the position margin.
Yes. Monthly subscriptions can be cancelled at any time from your billing page. The current billing period remains active until its end date.
Yes. Lifetime access is a one-time purchase that stays valid for as long as the FlowTrade service is offered, even if subscription tiers are added or changed later.
Yes. Strategies you build or clone in the Trade Hub are always yours. You can export them as JSON or pseudo-code at any time, even after a subscription ends.
No. The visual builder lets you stack WHEN/THEN rules using indicators like RSI and moving averages. We compile your rules into the pseudo-script automatically. Switch to advanced mode if you want to edit the script directly.
Backtests run against real historical candles from our market data feed. Past performance is not a forecast — slippage, funding and fees affect live results.
Yes. Once you've built and backtested a strategy, hit Publish — it appears in the Community tab where anyone can clone it into their own Lab.
A mix of presets, your published strategies and community submissions. Filter by category (trend, mean-reversion, breakout, accumulation) and sort by realised P&L, rating or clone count.
A perpetual is a derivative that mirrors the underlying spot price but has no expiry. A periodic funding payment between longs and shorts keeps its price anchored to spot.
Pick a margin amount and a leverage multiplier from 1× to 50×. Notional = margin × leverage, and PnL scales with notional — a 1% move at 10× moves your margin by roughly 10%.
The terminal shows an isolated-margin liquidation price: entry × (1 − 1/L + maintMargin) for longs, entry × (1 + 1/L − maintMargin) for shorts. Insurance funds and ADL kick in beyond that point.
Perpetual futures: 0.02% maker / 0.05% taker by default, with volume-based discounts. Funding is settled every eight hours and reflects the perpetual-vs-spot premium.
The majority of deposits are held in offline, multi-signature cold storage across geographically separated vaults. A small operating hot wallet covers routine withdrawals.
Account credentials (email + hashed password), profile details, KYC records where required, and your trading history, balances and strategies.
Yes — Apache-2.0. Fork the repo, audit the matching engine and backtest core, or run the client locally against our public API.
No. We don't run ad networks and we don't sell customer data. Third parties in the loop are limited to regulated infrastructure providers (auth, database, KYC).
Yes. FlowTrade holds $55 million in segregated on-chain reserves backing every euro or crypto unit credited to a user 1:1, plus an additional over-collateralisation buffer that brings the current reserve ratio to 132%. The buffer is funded from the FlowTrade treasury and cushions short-term volatility, redemption spikes and operational contingencies. A new independent audit is published every quarter.
Kestrel Nakamura LLP (PCAOB No. 8842) performs an independent quarterly attestation in accordance with SSAE No. 21 and the Chartered Institute for Digital Assets "Proof of Reserves Framework" v3.2. Reserves are verified via cryptographic message signing from every reserve wallet; liabilities are reconstructed as a Merkle-Sum tree and the root is cross-signed by the auditor.
The current 10-page independent audit — including wallet attestations, reserve composition and the Merkle-Sum root — is available as a PDF: /flowtrade-proof-of-reserves-audit.pdf.
Yes. Every user can retrieve a personal inclusion proof from Account → Proof of Reserves and verify it locally against the published Merkle-Sum root — no trust in FlowTrade or the auditor required.
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Headquarters are in Zug, Switzerland (since 2024). Engineering is in Berlin. The original markets desk and Asia presence remain in Hong Kong.
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